Improvement in handles for tea and coffee pots



UNITED STATES can. `HArsrED, oFNEW-YRK, N. Y.

, pews lMPROVEMENTIN HAND'LES FOR TEA ANDCOFFEE POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,061, dated June (i, i865.

declarethat the following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof. which will enable others vskilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being'l had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- I Figure l is a side view of my invention; 'Fig-2, an edge ViewA of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse section ot' the saine, taken in the line x x, Fig. l; Fig. 4. a"`transverse section ot' the same in an unlinished state.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to obtain a sheet-metal handle for .sheet-metal teaand coffee Vpots and other similar sheet-1netal vessels, which may be cheaply constructed and have a neat and ornamental appearance, far more so than the common sheet-metal and east-iron handles hitherto used. The superior class,ot' sheet-metal tea and coi'tee pots are now provided with japanned cast-iron handles, and also with White-metal handles. These, however, receive and retain the heat from the warm contents ofthe vessel, and are heavy and expensive, so much so as to auginent very materially the cost of such articles.

My invention consists in having 'the handies constructed ot' two loi'lgitudinal parts swagrd or struck up in proper form ont oi' sheet metal. and connected together by solder, or otherwise, so as to form a1 thin hollow or 'tubular handle, substantially as hereinafter ser. forth.

A A represent the two parts of the handle, which are swaged or struck np4 by means of proper dies of the forni or shape desired..

Tinplate will probably be the material most generally used, although other sheet-metal plate may in certain cases he employed. The two parts'A A are swaged b v-reverse dies, so that when joined or ahntted together a hollow or tubular handle will be formed, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. After the parts are swaged or struck up the burr a, Fig. 4, is trimmed oit and the parts connected together by'solder, or otherwise.- The handle, when finished. is also connect-ed' tothe vessel by solder. parts A may be swaged or struck up so as to have a smooth exterior. or have lany ornamental conliguration or design upon it.

Besides the economy attending this inode of construction, the handle possesses the advantage of being retained in a cool state, as itis tubulanand contains but little metal,

and hence will not receive and retain ina material degree the heat from the warnt contents of the vessel to which it is aftached.

Having thus described my invention. I clii m' in any proper or rdesired `forin, out ot' sheetn metal` and connected together by solder' or otherwise, substantially as herein set. forth.

G. B.Y HALSTED.

Titnessesr WM. S. MCNAMARA, J As. P. HALL.

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